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Introduction Sample Opening Passage: From "The Birthmark", which captures a common theme in Hawthorne's work: In the latt...

Today is the feast of Queen Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Great Martyr and Holy Helper, the patron saint of philosophers. Her story like...

Men of Aquino by Lionel Johnson To Charles Mulvaney Those angry fires, that clove the air, Heavy with Rome's Imperial lust: Those...

Unlike Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne was not a particularly common source of stories in the Golden Age of Radio. The Golden Age serie...

I am not a great cook by any means, but one thing I do exceptionally well is roast a turkey -- never dry, never tough, never bland. A few ti...

A Bit of Thanksgiving Thank you, Lord, for infant smiles and children bright at play; thank you for the silly souls who annoy us every ...

Erotetic logic is the logic of questions. As with the logic of imperatives , there is a need for such a thing, and for similar reasons. You ...